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Woman's Hour

Parenting: Children who attack their parents

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Police forces across the country have found that the number of crimes involving children attacking their parents has doubled in the last three years from 7,000 to 14,000. The figures have been uncovered by BBC Yorkshire after they made a Freedom of Information request. They were invited to attend a course in Doncaster called Getting On. It’s one of a handful of similar schemes around the country which aim to help parents and children find a solution to this type of abuse. Jenni speaks to Emma Glasbey, BBC Yorkshire’s home affairs correspondent.

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0:40.4

Police forces across the country have found that the number of crimes involving children

0:46.0

attacking their parents has doubled in the last three years from around 7,000 to 14,000. The figures have been uncovered by the BBC in Yorkshire after they made a freedom of information

0:58.6

request. They were invited to attend a course in Doncaster called Getting On.

1:04.4

It's one of a handful of similar schemes around the country which aim to help parents and children

1:09.5

find a solution to this type of abuse.

1:12.3

I spoke to Emma Glasgow, the BBC Yorkshire Home Affairs

1:16.9

Correspondent and asked her about the figures which came from 19 police forces around the country and how seriously are the police taking this?

1:27.0

Well the figures that we've had from these 19 police forces, they do show a very significant increase.

1:33.6

Those police forces recorded more than 7,000 incidents of children attacking parents in 2015

1:40.4

and more than 14,000 last year in 2018.

1:45.0

But the reason that we've got information from 19 out of 44 police forces

1:50.4

across the UK is because these incidents fall under the domestic violence category

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